Dengue Fever Spreads, But Should't Reach U.s.

Other news to note - Caribbean & Latin America

October 23, 1999

MEXICO CITY - Scores of new cases of dengue fever in northern Mexico indicate the disease is spreading, but health officials in the United States say there's little danger of the outbreak moving north into Texas. At least 5,500 people have been diagnosed with the painful, mosquito-borne disease this month alone in Mexico's Nuevo Leon state. Of those, about 150 had the sometimes-fatal form known as hemorrhagic dengue. Another 500 cases have been reported in the neighboring state of Tamaulipas. Five people have died in Nuevo Leon and two in Tamaulipas. On Friday, health officials in northern Coahuila state said they had confirmed 77 cases there, including one case of hemorrhagic dengue.